Ruyi Jue

Everyone stood facing each other in the front hall and waited patiently for more than half an hour, when the servant rushed over sweating profusely: "Mr. Gongye, the castellan is not in the house."

Gong Yeming was surprised: "Where will the city lord go if he is not in his house?"

The servant shook his head and said: "I don't know, I have searched everywhere, but I didn't see where the other city masters are."

Gong Yeming pondered for a while, and ordered a few servants: "You guys, go and search in every corner of the mansion, especially the study room and those pavilions."

Several people took orders to leave, and came one after another after a while, still saying the same as the man just now: "The city owner is not in the house."

"Not in the study either."

"I didn't see anyone in the pavilion in the backyard."

Gong Yeming's expression became serious, he stroked his beard and thought for a while, then suddenly said: "Did you go to the front hall to see?"

Those servants were all stunned, Gong Yeming said again: "Forget it, let's go find it together."

He turned around and said to Shen Yufeng and the others: "You guys also come with me."

Shen Yufeng was noncommittal, leading Yun Lian, followed by Hong Lian, who also followed.Yun Lian was still caught by him, he purposely moved closer to Shen Yufeng's ear, and lowered his voice somewhat mysteriously: "Do you think Shi Guanghe will be in the hall?"

Shen Yufeng raised his eyebrows slightly: "Do you know something?"

Yun Lian smiled and said: "If you beg me, I will tell you what happened."

Shen Yufeng saw him smiling with confidence, he seemed to know Shi Guanghe's whereabouts, and was about to ask a few more questions, when suddenly his mind moved, and instead of asking Yun Lian, he turned to Hong Lian behind him and asked: "Just now they What was said in that shabby house?"

Although he noticed Yun Lian entering the house just now, after Shi Fengting also appeared, he fell into self-regulation, did not pay much attention to the outside world, and did not know what Yun Lian and Shi Fengting discussed in the house. Hearing his question, Hong Lian told him in a low voice about Yun Lian and Shi Fengting discussing cooperation in front of the ruined house.

After Shen Yufeng heard the whole process, he thought about it for a while and came to understand. It seems that Yun Lian has reached a cooperation with Shi Fengting, and the two of them probably will attack Shi Guanghe soon.

Could it be that Shi Guanghe's mysterious disappearance was the first step in the cooperation plan between Yun Lian and Shi Fengting?

Yun Lian saw that he took the initiative to ask Shen Yufeng a question, but Shen Yufeng didn't take the bait, but would rather go to Hong Lian for questioning. He was so angry that his teeth were itching. He obviously didn't want to listen to them anymore, but he couldn't get rid of Shen Yufeng's imprisonment , snorted to himself, turned his head, and refused to speak again.

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This front hall was originally used for entertaining guests, and it was only a few steps away from the front yard. Soon, they followed Gong Yeming into the front hall.

Gong Yeming ordered people to light candles to illuminate the originally dark hall. After the candles were lit, the tables and seats that filled the hall during the day had already been removed, but the coffin was still in the middle.

Everyone looked at each other and I looked at you under the flickering candlelight, but no one spoke—because as soon as they entered the hall, they all heard voices from under the coffin.

It was a low whimpering sound, like the shivering sound of a frightened animal hiding in its lair.

Everyone felt that the scene was weird, Gong Yeming was the first to react, and ordered someone to hold a candlestick to illuminate it, while he reached out to fish under the coffin, and directly fished out a person.

Everyone was taken aback, this person was really Shi Guanghe.

He actually hid under this coffin?

Gong Yeming dragged the man out, only to see that Shi Guanghe was shaking like a sieve, tears were streaming down his round face, he kept muttering to himself, talking incomprehensibly, Gong Yeming's face became more serious , shouted a few times: "City Lord, what's wrong with you?"

Shi Guanghyuk still huddled into a ball, talking on his own.

Gong Yeming met his eyes, and seeing the unconcealable fear in his slack eyes, he couldn't help being very surprised, and the people behind him couldn't help but shuddered and whispered when they saw this weird scene.

A servant next to him stammered: "The city owner may be..."

Gong Yeming frowned and said, "What is it?"

The man whispered: "Yes, it's a ghost encounter..."

Gong Yeming suddenly shouted: "What nonsense?"

The man was so frightened that he immediately fell silent, not daring to speak again.

Gong Yeming sighed, shook his head and said, "Go find the young city master and ask him to decide on this matter."

Several timid domestic servants immediately agreed with "Yes" and ran out of the hall together.

Gong Yeming turned around again, supported Shi Guanghe who was insane and absent-minded, and remained silent, but at this moment Yun Lian, who was standing beside Shen Yufeng, suddenly said, "Mr. Gongye, I have an idea."

Everyone looked up at him.

Yun Lian smiled slightly: "Since City Lord Shi appeared under this coffin for no reason, it may mean that there is something worthy of his attention inside the coffin. I suggest opening the coffin to see what treasures are hidden inside."

Shen Yufeng looked over at him when he heard the words, and saw that he was smiling calmly at Gong Yeming, but the corners of his mouth were slightly curled up, as if he was trying to make a bad idea.

Shen Yufeng thought for a while, and figured this out.It seemed that he was right, Yun Lian had already made a cooperation agreement with Shi Fengting to deal with Shi Guanghe, so he already knew that Shi Guanghe would appear here.

However, he really wanted to see how these two people would pull Shi Guanghe down from the position of city lord, and he secretly hoped that the more chaos the Zizai City would have, the better, so even though he knew Yun Lian and Shi Fengting's plan, he did not expose their plan Intend.

But Hong Lian was innocent by nature, so she didn't notice this at all.

After hearing Yun Lian's proposal, Gong Yeming fell silent again.The people around him urged: "Mr. Gongye, try opening the coffin, maybe, maybe you are really bewitched."

"That's right, Mr. Gongye, open it and have a look. If you don't open it, you will feel restless."

Gong Yeming urged a few words from the audience, and seeing that Shi Guanghe seemed to have lost his mind, he was forced to shake his head and said, "Okay, let's see what is in the coffin."

He helped Shi Guanghe onto a stool beside the coffin, came to the side of the coffin, squatted down, put his hands on the top of the coffin, shouted loudly, and lifted the coffin board, which weighed more than a thousand catties, suddenly.

Everyone was surprised, they didn't expect that he seemed frail and middle-aged, but he still had such physical strength.

After Gong Yeming lifted the coffin boards, a burst of old dust flew towards him. Looking inside, it was so dark that he couldn't see anything clearly. He said, "Bring a torch."

He took the torch from the servant behind him and shone it into the coffin.

I saw that the inside of the coffin was empty, and the coffin wall was gouged very deep, and there was actually a scroll in the middle of the coffin board.

He picked up the painting scroll and unfolded it. On the right side was a woman with a bun and plum blossoms in her hands; There is a bit of similarity, and the names of the two are written in small letters next to them to show their identities.

It turns out that the people on these two paintings are Shi Guanghe's brother-in-law and also Shi Fengting's parents.

Shi Guanghe, who was sitting next to him, saw the two people in the portrait, his eyes widened sharply, and suddenly he shouted in horror: "Ghost, there is a ghost!"

Everyone was shocked again, and suddenly saw Shi Guanghe throwing away the servants in front of him, crawling and rolling, and came straight to the portrait, knelt on the ground with a "thump", kowtowed continuously, and shouted: "Brother, sister-in-law!" ,I was wrong!"

Amidst everyone's bewilderment and bewilderment, he shouted: "I shouldn't have poisoned you for the sake of the city lord back then! I shouldn't have thrown your corpses to the wild dogs! Brother and sister-in-law, I was wrong, I was really wrong !"

"Don't come to seek revenge on me! I beg you to spare me! I beg you! Woooooooooo—"

Everyone at the scene was shocked and terrified when they heard his crazy words and told the horrific truth back then; but when they saw that he seemed to have completely lost their minds, he actually confided in his behavior of brutally killing his brother and sister-in-law and throwing their corpses to feed the dogs, and felt that this It's as ridiculous as it gets.

However, if Shi Guanghe was really responsible for the previous city lord and his wife, why did he suddenly admit it?

Is it really a ghost?

At this time, a gust of dark wind blows from the back outside the door, making the servants walking around in the hall even more creepy.

"Shi Guanghe! Give back my parents' lives!"

A voice suddenly exploded outside the door, and everyone was startled. They all looked at the source of the sound, and saw that Shi Fengting had already arrived at the hall, standing at the door, trembling with excitement, pointing angrily at Shi Guanghe who was knelt on the ground and kowtowed endlessly. .

He rushed in suddenly, pushed away everyone in front of him, grabbed Shi Guanghe who was on the ground, and stared at him intently.

Gong Yeming frowned slightly, and said: "Young City Master, the matter has not been clarified yet, please calm down." He took a step forward and waved his left arm flatly, trying to snatch Shi Guanghe from his hand.

"Calm down! Shi Guanghe has already explained everything, what else is there to investigate!" But Shi Fengting threw Shi Guanghe on the ground at this time, and howled loudly, "I didn't expect Shi Guanghe to be the city lord. He didn't even let his elder brother and sister-in-law off! Such a man with a human face and a beast's heart will be punished by heaven and earth!"

Gong Yeming's lips moved slightly, and was about to stop him, but Shi Fengting lowered his eyelashes, and said in a painful voice: "Back then, my parents died unexpectedly, Zizi City was in chaos, I was forced to leave overnight, and I didn't even see them for the last time. No. Over the past few years, I have been exiled in Miaojiang to survive, and I have been stared at by the world. What I have been thinking about is how to return to Zizai City, find out the real cause of death of my parents, and give them justice. God, I found out that the real murderer turned out to be my most respected and beloved uncle! The murderer of my father and my enemy have been hiding by my side all along!"

Speaking later, his eyes turned red, and he began to cry loudly regardless of his image: "Now that Shi Guanghe has committed many injustices and confessed to his crimes, my parents must have appeared in the sky! Father, mother, the truth tonight Dabai, you can finally rest in peace!"

Hong Lian heard his cry full of pain, and thought of her duckweed-like life experience, she felt a little pity and sympathy for him.

Not only did she have this idea, but everyone present except Shen Yufeng and Yun Lian, who knew the inside story, heard this, and felt sorry for this poor young city lord. He thought he was only in his early twenties this year, but he was already in his early twenties. Losing his parents, wandering abroad for several years, how to live a life under the fence of others, and what kind of belief in survival can he return to Zizi City alive.

Thinking of this, everyone hated Shi Guanghe who killed his brother and sister-in-law even more, and cast disdainful and contemptuous looks at him on the ground.

Gong Yeming quietly listened to his choked voice, then slowly shook his head and said, "May I ask where the young city master appeared tonight?"

Shi Fengting suddenly withdrew his crying, and said with a sneer, "Mr. Gongye doubts me?"

Gong Yeming hurriedly said: "I don't dare." At this moment, Yun Lian said coolly: "I can testify that the Young City Lord has been by my side tonight, and we chased the thieves all the way outside the mansion. divided."

Gong Yeming asked: "Then why did Mr. Yun come back with this Hero Shen?"

Yun Lian nodded and said: "Well, of course it's because—" He intentionally lengthened the ending, "Because after we separated, I accidentally got caught by this martial arts master Shen Hero." He was talking , while casting a look of anger at Shen Yufeng, and deliberately scratched his palm a few times.

Shen Yufeng pinched his troubled hand with his backhand and gave him a cold look.

Gong Yeming was silent for a while after listening.Yun Lian's testimony can indeed prove that Shi Fengting was not at the scene when Shi Guanghe's accident happened.He was contemplating without saying a word, when Shi Fengting suddenly said: "Mr. Gongye, what are you thinking? Now that Shi Guanghe has confessed himself, Mr. is still ambiguous, because he really doesn't take me, the young city lord, seriously. gone?"

Such an accusation clearly means that as a military adviser without real power, he is arrogating himself, and intends to surpass the future ruler of the Young City Lord.Gong Yeming bowed again and said, "Don't dare!"

Shi Fengting said proudly: "Then what does Mr. Gongye think we should do?"

Gongyeming thought for a while, looked at Shi Guanghe who was still lying on the ground talking to himself, sighed slightly, and waved to the group of servants: "First help the city lord down to rest."

However, after the voice of exhortation fell, no one at the scene took a step forward.Gong Yeming's body shuddered, and he looked around. Everyone looked at Shi Guanghe with strong disgust and disdain.

Apparently, Shi Guanghyuk's confession of killing his brother and sister-in-law caused him to lose people's hearts overnight.

He suddenly had a premonition that the situation of Zizi City seemed to be turned upside down overnight.

He sighed again: "Forget it, I'll do it." He lifted Shi Guanghe up from the ground, and walked towards the door.

As soon as he took a step, Shi Fengting stopped in front of him: "Mr. Gongye, now you are the elder with the highest status and deepest qualifications in the city. I respect your character, so I asked your opinion specifically, and you avoided talking about it. Are you going to favor Shi Guanghyuk to the end?"

Gong Yeming just shook his head: "The city lord is frightened and needs to rest." After thinking for a while, he said, "Let's talk about everything after the city lord wakes up tomorrow."

What Shi Fengting didn't understand was that Gongye was clearly delaying time, but he was now in a favorable position, knowing that the pressure was too much and would make the other party jump over the wall, so he said, "Okay, I'll let Shi Guanghe go first, and wait until tomorrow." Deal with this matter, but at that time, I will call all the people in Liberty City to announce the matter tonight, and ask Shi Guanghe for justice."

He flicked his sleeves lightly, and after he finished speaking, he turned around and left.When he walked up to Shen Yufeng and the others, he cast a look at Yun Lian: "Master Yun may need to host the scene tomorrow."

Yun Lian smiled and said, "It's only natural."

Shi Fengting made a "please" gesture: "Please, Mr. Yun, I still have some plans to discuss with Mr. Yun regarding tomorrow's conference."

Yun Lian nodded slightly, planning to leave with him, but one hand was still held by Shen Yufeng, he struggled a little, and found that Shen Yufeng had no intention of letting go, so he deliberately said: "Yu Feng, why are you still holding me? let it go."

Shen Yufeng came to his senses, thinking of Shi Guanghe's accident, many things might not be resolved tonight, so he had to let him go first.

After letting go, he was still a little worried, and said coldly, "Don't play tricks."

Yun Lian just blinked at him with a smile, then followed Shi Fengting and walked out.

He didn't speak, but Shen Yufeng immediately understood the meaning of that look. He was saying, "What tricks can I play in front of you?"